Dr. Mortimer Granville
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Hysteria is a 2011 British period romantic comedy film directed by Tanya Wexler. It stars Hugh Dancy and Maggie Gyllenhaal, with Felicity Jones, Jonathan Pryce, and Rupert Everett appearing in key supporting roles. [1]
Dec 14, 2011 · Hysteria: Directed by Tanya Wexler. With Hugh Dancy, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jonathan Pryce, Felicity Jones. The truth of how Mortimer Granville devised the invention of the first vibrator in the name of medical science.
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- Biography, Comedy, Romance
- Tanya Wexler
- 2011-12-14
Apr 16, 2012 · HYSTERIA, a mischievously inspired romantic comedy set in the late 19th century, is based on the surprising truth of how Mortimer Granville came up with the world's first electromechanical...
- 2 min
- 347.3K
- Sony Pictures Classics
In 1880s London, a forward-thinking young doctor concocts an electrifying solution to the rampant "hysteria" among England's sexually repressed women. Watch trailers & learn more.
In 1880 pioneering doctor Mortimer Granville, sacked from various hospitals for challenging his superiors' outmoded methods, gets a job with Dr Dalrymple, who relieves female patients' frustrations - or hysteria - with pelvic massages which allow orgasm.
Charlotte will stop at nothing to keep her settlement house running, up to and including assault on a bothersome policeman. Arrested and put on trial, Charlotte's only chance to stay out of prison is a diagnosis of severe hysteria, which would cause her to be sent to a mental institution instead.
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In an age of invention, one man set out to find a medical cure for what ailed women…and accidentally electrified our love lives forever. HYSTERIA is a lighthearted romantic comedy that tells the surprising story of the birth of the electro-mechanical vibrator at the very peak of Victorian prudishness.
